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re: Why are new skyscrapers so ugly?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:26 pm to Yammie250F
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:26 pm to Yammie250F
They have groups of elevators that service around 15-25 floors and are pretty fast. Not as bad as you would think but you definitely have to wait.
Penthouse floors have a special elevators for them baws.
That is just my experience though.
Penthouse floors have a special elevators for them baws.
That is just my experience though.
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Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:26 pm to BurlesonCountyAg
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I M Pei
My personal favorite.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:27 pm to BogeyTX
If you believe reports the super talls are all pretty much vacant. Just reap estate holdings with soft much actual occupancy.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:31 pm to bad93ex
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recent road trip across the country and way too much brutalist architecture in this country.
The style that's mostly here and what you see around the country that's truly depressing is the "International Style". Think plain square boxes that are build for cost and efficiency and not much else.
There are a few examples of Post Modern building that have interest and style. Phillip Johnson designed some very cool buildings, like PPG Plaza in Pittsburgh, TC Energy Building in Houston, The Lipstick Building in New York, that actually has a lot of Art Deco influences.
End of the day, I couldn't agree more with the sentiment that Art Deco should have been the base architectural direction for the US.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:41 pm to RolltidePA
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End of the day, I couldn't agree more with the sentiment that Art Deco should have been the base architectural direction for the US.
Uniquely American Architecture would make a lot more sense than copying European styles.
America being a melting pot has led to its cities looking a lot more diverse and more interesting in my opinion. Modernism and Mies van der Rohe disciples certainly had more influence than desired by most.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:43 pm to Kentucker
I would be scared to death to live or work in a super skinny 
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:46 pm to TexasTiger08
Brutalist architecture is ugly on purpose.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:48 pm to RBTiger
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Wish BR LA had a new Skyscraper ....nothing Taller than 12 stories since the late 80's; while Austin & Nashville Skylines continue to grow
When I Iook at BR from afar, all I notice is an old bridge with stopped traffic sitting on it. And I think nothing more than three lanes bottlenecking into one since the 50s while Austin & Nashville continues to roll.
frick the rest of BR's skyline.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:58 pm to slidingstop
I know it's dirty right now but the LA Capitol exuded sex. A huge dick with balls and reliefs with titties.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:03 pm to junkfunky
Thought everyone have left town
Are they building them for the poors?
Are they building them for the poors?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:13 pm to TexasTiger08
They are all built on a tiny footprint so you have to go straight up to get the sq footage to make it profitable. Just my guess from those pictured.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:18 pm to TexasTiger08
Architects... enough said.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:19 pm to TexasTiger08
Jenga Tower?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:24 pm to Kentucker
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They represent a new class of skyscrapers called super skinnies.
Harder for the planes to hit.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 4:07 pm to Ace Midnight
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Brutalist architecture is ugly on purpose.
It is. It has been from the beginning.The Europeans (mostly Germans) that developed the style were heavily influenced by Anarchist and Marxist theory in the teens and twenties and thirties. That led to any kind of beauty or ornament in architecture being considered decadent and bourgeois. This kind of “ugliness is beauty “ horseshite dominated art and architecture for far too long.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:27 pm to DesScorp
Most of the super skinnies are being built on the south edge of Central Park. They call it Billionaire’s Row. Includes towers like One57, 432 Park Avenue, 111 West 57th Street (Steinway Tower), and Central Park Tower, which is the tallest residential building in the world.
They actually look pretty cool from the vantage point from south Central Park.
They actually look pretty cool from the vantage point from south Central Park.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:34 pm to TexasTiger08
Ugly as frick but I bet that’s not cheap per square foot
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:37 pm to TexasTiger08
Dubai started all this stuff.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:39 pm to Kentucker
If I lived or worked in a high floor I’m having a base jumping parachute on hand.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:39 pm to TexasTiger08
Chrysler tower ftw
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